Anne Boyer

»Dyb og uforglemmelig« Sally RooneyPå tværs af genreskel har Anne Boyer skrevet en dybt rørende og poetisk bog om sygdom i det 21. århundrede. Belønnet med Pulitzer-prisen i 2020. Anne Boyer er lige fyldt 41, da hun bliver diagnosticeret med en aggressiv brystkræft. For en enlig mor, der lever fra lønseddel til lønseddel og som altid har været omsorgsgiveren frem for omsorgsmodtageren, bliver den katastrofale sygdom både en krise og en igangsættelse af nye tanker om dødelighed og sygdommens politik og litteratur. Ikke at dø er en rystende beretning og en stort anlagt udforskning af sygdom i det 21. århundrede. Anne Boyer konsulterer ældgamle drømmedagbøger, analyserer kapitaliseringen af ??nutidens sundhedsvæsen, beskæftiger sig med konspirationsteorier omkring kræft, med smerte og hvordan man taler om det, med kræftsvindlere og -fetichister, vloggere og virksomhedernes store løgne; hun læser barokdigteren John Donne, finder ud af at hendes kemoterapimedicin blev produceret som sennepsgas for over hundrede år siden, og endelig finder hun genklang i litteraturen fra forfattere, der har skrevet om sygdom og nærmer sig døden: Kathy Acker, Audre Lorde, Susan Sontag, Virginia Woolf.» Anne Boyer er en uundværlig stemme, og det her er en uundværlig bog: en krops akutte forsøg på at finde et sprog for at fortælle os hvad den ved« Jonathan Lethem

Vinnare av 2020 års Pulitzerpris i kategorin sakprosa! »En magnifik och rasande bok.« The New York Times »Ett djupsinnigt och oförglömligt verk om vår upplevelse av själva livet.« Sally Rooney, författare till Normala människorEn vecka efter sin fyrtioförsta födelsedag diagnosticeras den hyllade poeten Anne Boyer med en aggressiv trippelnegativ bröstcancer. För en ensamstående mamma som levt från lön till lön, som alltid varit den omhändertagande snarare än den som tagits om hand, blir den katastrofala sjukdomen en fullständig kris. Det att inte dö [The Undying] gestaltar ett sjukdomsförlopp förmedlat av digitala skärmar. Fram träder en genreöverskridande väv av cancerbedragare, lögnaktiga företag och fetischister; av kapitalismens många små mord. En memoar som hudflår läkemedelsindustrin och placerar Anne Boyer i det sällskap av kvinnliga författare som tidigare skrivit om sin sjukdom och pågående död: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker och Susan Sontag. En upprivande skildring av överlevnad, och en 2000-talets motsvarighet till Susan Sontags Sjukdom som metafor. I svensk översättning av Marie Silkeberg. ANNE BOYER, född 1973, är en amerikansk författare och poet. Hon har bland annat belönats med 2018 års Whiting Award och samma års Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. För Det att inte dö [The Undying] tilldelades hon Pulitzerpriset i kategorin General Nonfiction.» Språket är flödande, med en personlig och upprorisk ton.« Marianne Berglund, BTJ

»En bok som skänker enorm kraft.« | The New York TimesAnne Boyers Klädesplagg mot kvinnor hör till sensationerna i de senaste årens amerikanska poesi. Ett monument byggt på känslan av att vara allt annat än ett monument. Ur trasorna av en Kansas-mors liv framträder en väv som vidgar uppfattningen om vad poesi och memoar kan vara. I översättning av Andreas Lundberg. ANNE BOYER [född 1973] är en amerikansk författare. Hon tilldelades 2020 års Pulitzerpris i kategorin General Nonfiction för The Undying och har även mottagit bland annat Cy Twombly Award och 2018 års Whiting Award. Med Klädesplagg mot kvinnor introduceras Anne Boyer för första gången på svenska.

A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. In The Undying - at once her harrowing memoir of survival, and a 21st-century Illness as Metaphor - Boyer draws on sources from ancient Roman dream diarists to cancer vloggers to explore the experience of illness. She investigates the quackeries, casualties and ecological costs of cancer under capitalism, and dives into the long line of women writing about their own illnesses and deaths, among them Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker and Susan Sontag. Genre-bending, devastating and profoundly humane, The Undying is an unmissably insightful meditation on cancer, the cancer industry and the sicknesses and glories of contemporary Life.

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION"The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." --Sally Rooney, author of Normal People"Anne Boyer's radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." --Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka SchoolA week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain "dolorists," the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of "pink ribbon culture" while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations

Det er især erfaringer forbundet med køn, klasse, arbejde, økonomi og sygdom som bliver undersøgt i Beklædning imod kvinder. Egentlig er bogen skrevet i en periode hvor Boyer havde opgivet at skrive – for hvordan forsørge sig selv og sit barn som digter – og måske er det derfor at bogen føles helt igennem nødvendig og nysgerrig. Tøj, penge, traumer, syersker, elskere, bilkørsel, datteren, er blot en lille del af hvad der optræder i den her varme, skarpe, indsigtsfulde bog. Anne Boyer (f. 1973) er digter og essayist og bor i Kansas City, USA. Hun debuterede i 2008 med digtsamlingen The Romance of Happy Workers. Senest er udkommet essaysamlingen Handbook of Disappointed Fate (2018) og The Undying (2019), en meditation over kræftbehandling og kapitalisme. Garments Against Women, som hermed foreligger på dansk med titlen Beklædning imod kvinder, udkom første gang i 2015 og blev Anne Boyers gennembrud som digter. Sidste år blev bogen genudgivet som paperback af Penguin Books.

The multi-award-winning meditation on survival, care and the place of literature in an unequal world'Around that time my daughter and I had this exchange:Anne, imagine if the world had nothing in it. Do you mean nothing at all - just darkness - or a world without objects? I mean a world without things: no houses, chairs, or cars. A world with only people and trees and dirt. What do you think would happen? People would make things. We would make things with trees and dirt.'When the cold comes, when our needs announce themselves, it is with clothing, with possessions, in literature, through dreams - in all the forms and categories that shape, contain and constrain - that we keep ourselves alive. Yet, in a society in which some are rich and some are poor, who gets to dream, and who invents our forms? This is a book made of money and the lack of money; of writing and of not-writing; of illness and of care; of low-rent apartments, cake-baking mothers, Socratic daughters and bodies that refuse to become information.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020FINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020’Profound and unforgettable’ Sally Rooney’A classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius’ Patricia Lockwood’An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique’ Ben Lerner’Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read’ Hari KunzruBlending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist’s devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern worldA week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. In The Undying - at once her harrowing memoir of survival, and a 21st-century Illness as Metaphor - Boyer draws on sources from ancient Roman dream diarists to cancer vloggers to explore the experience of illness. She investigates the quackeries, casualties and ecological costs of cancer under capitalism, and dives into the long line of women writing about their own illnesses and deaths, among them Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker and Susan Sontag. Genre-bending, devastating and profoundly humane, The Undying is an unmissably insightful meditation on cancer, the cancer industry and the sicknesses and glories of contemporary life.

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The Romance of Happy Workers swaggers through a world of cowboys, conquistadors, comrades, and housewives with mock-Russian lyric sequences and Keatsian swoon. Political and iconoclastic, Anne Boyer’s poems dally in pastoral camp and a dizzying, delightful array of sights and sounds born from the dust of the Kansas plains where dinner for two is cooked in Fire King and served on depression ware, and where bawdy instructions for a modern “Home on the Range” read: Mix a drink of stock lot: vermouth and the water table. And the bar will smell of IBP. And you will lick my Laura Ingalls. In Boyer’s heartland, “Surfaces should be worn. Lamps should smolder. / Dahlias do bloom like tumors. The birds do rise like bombs.” And the once bright and now crumbling populism of Marxists, poets, and folksingers springs vividly back to life as realism, idealism, and nostalgia do battle amongst the silos and ditchweed. Nothing, too, is a subject: dusk regulating the blankery. Fill in the nightish sky with ardent, fill in the metaphorical smell. A poet and visual artist, Anne Boyer lives in Kansas, where she co-edits the poetry journal Abraham Lincoln and teaches at Kansas City Art Institute.